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«Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.»
Author: Augusto Roa Bastos
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aping, coitus, copulate, copying, grasshopper, grasshoppers, imitating, plagiarize, plagiarizing
«Only the mature spirit lives with the proud knowledge that he is a little lower than the angels rather than a little higher than the apes»
Author: Dorothy Carnegie
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aped, apes, aping, in low spirits, lower, low spirits, mature, The Angels
«It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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aped, apes, aping, base, disturbs, mischievous, ravenous, savage, selfish, The Vulture, unjust, vulture, wolves
«And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.»
«At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.»
«OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with the grin that apes a smile. Being a blind faith, it is inaccessible to the light of disproof --an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«He doth like the ape, that the higher he clymbes the more he shows his ars»
«Man is more ape than many of the apes»
«It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto the plains, where some were probably hit by cars»
«They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion -- not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
aggrandizement, aped, aping, bondage, evasion, evasions, improvidence, intemperance, laziness, vices
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